Summary: effectiveness of single interventions
| Intervention focus | Intervention type | Total number of reviews (Mean quality score) | Professional practice | Patient outcome | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | Effective (%) | Ineffective (%) | Unclear (%) | n | Effective (%) | Ineffective (%) | Unclear (%) | |||
| Persuasion | Marketing | 1 (11) | 1 | 1 (100) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 | – | – | – |
| Mass media | 0 (NA) | 0 | – | – | – | |||||
| Local consensus processes | 0 (NA) | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | – | – | – | |
| Local opinion leaders | 1 (10) | 1 | 1 (100) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 | – | – | – | |
| Education | Patient-mediated interventions | 0 (NA) | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | |||
| Distribution of educational materials | 6 (8.3) | 5 | 3 (60) | 1 (20) | 1 (20) | 5 | 2 (40) | 1 (20) | 2 (40) | |
| Educational meetings | 5 (8) | 4 | 3 (60) | 1 (20) | 1 (20) | 2 | 1 (50) | 0 (0) | 1 (50) | |
| Educational outreach | 2 (8.5) | 2 | 2 (100) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 1 | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 1 (100) | |
| Action | Audit and feedback | 1 (10) | 2 | 1 (100) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 1 | 1 (100) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) |
| Reminders | 18 (7.6) | 18 | 14 (78) | 2 (11) | 2 (11) | 11 | 4 (36) | 2 (18) | 5 (45) | |
NA, not applicable.